Silkscreen font

Audio and Graphics
#1

I’ve been trying to get the Silkscreen font to show up on my device, but I’ve been having no luck. It shows up fine on the simulator, validates perfectly in Font Book and is included in my build.settings correctly. I’ve created a TTF version using the www.fontsquirrel.com online tool, which I’ve used successfully in the past.

I’ve checked the build process, and from what I can see the font gets copied across fine, but when I get the device to print out all fonts, Silkscreen or anything that looks similar isn’t among them.

I may just be missing something utterly obvious, but could someone else try for me and verify that either a) I’m an idiot or b) explain why the font isn’t working?

The devices in question is an iOS device, not tried it on others yet

#2

Are you sure you’ve got the name down right? In my game, I used the “Courier New” font, and it worked perfectly on the simulator, but deploying to device failed because the “real” name of the font is “CourierNewPSMT”.

To find the name, open Font Book, choose your font (and associated style), and press Command+i. Find where it says “PostScript name”. That’s what you should put in your display.newText() calls.

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#3

Thanks that’s a great hint regards the PostScript name. I’ve checked that and tried other custom fonts, but no luck so far…

#4

it+s+called+a+rage+comic..+stop+complain Forgot the outer settings property in the build.settings file 

#5

To be fair Corona didn’t help, a bit of build.settings sanity checking would save my sanity 

#6

Are you sure you’ve got the name down right? In my game, I used the “Courier New” font, and it worked perfectly on the simulator, but deploying to device failed because the “real” name of the font is “CourierNewPSMT”.

To find the name, open Font Book, choose your font (and associated style), and press Command+i. Find where it says “PostScript name”. That’s what you should put in your display.newText() calls.

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#7

Thanks that’s a great hint regards the PostScript name. I’ve checked that and tried other custom fonts, but no luck so far…

#8

it+s+called+a+rage+comic..+stop+complain Forgot the outer settings property in the build.settings file 

#9

To be fair Corona didn’t help, a bit of build.settings sanity checking would save my sanity